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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded•com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter•org>,
	Petr Matousek <pmatouse@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] nfnetlink: do not ack malformed messages
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 02:03:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527C1C38.40908@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa44451df8aa56773b1b17cbbd86ced8b54eca5a.1383850681.git.jbenc@redhat.com>

Hello.

On 11/07/2013 09:59 PM, Jiri Benc wrote:

> Commit 0628b123c96d ("netfilter: nfnetlink: add batch support and use it
> from nf_tables") introduced a bug leading to various crashes in netlink_ack
> when netlink message with invalid nlmsg_len was sent by an unprivileged
> user.

> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat•com>
> ---
>   net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c |    8 +++++---
>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
> index 027f16a..046aa13 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
> @@ -363,13 +363,15 @@ static void nfnetlink_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
>   	struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
>   	int msglen;
>
> -	if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
> -		return netlink_ack(skb, nlh, -EPERM);
> -

    Hm, how it even compiled before your patch?

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-07 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-07 18:59 [PATCH net-next] nfnetlink: do not ack malformed messages Jiri Benc
2013-11-07 23:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2013-11-10  1:46   ` Cong Wang
2013-11-08 20:12 ` David Miller

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